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Medlem: ThomasJefferson

Bibliotek4,889 bøger — se bibliotek

Anmeldelser187 anmeldelser — se anmeldelser

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TagsPhilosophy (2,885), Moral Philosophy (2,419), Jurisprudence (2,201), Oeconomical Law (1,336), Politics (1,250), History (1,219), Fine Arts (712), Civil History (617), Municipal Law (604), Natural History (602) — se alle tags

GrupperI See Dead People['s Books]

Om mig Author of the Declaration of American Independence; of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom; and Father of the University of Virginia.

Om mit bibliotek My major library has been cataloged by helpful Thingamabrarii from the "I See Dead People['s Books]" group. The 6,487 volumes (c. 4,889 titles) included here are those I sold to the Library of Congress in 1815 for $23,950.

A fully annotated version of the library I sold to Congress is available here. This is the digital version of The Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, a five-volume scholarly bibliography compiled by E. Millicent Sowerby and published by the Library of Congress, 1952-1959.

One of Sowerby's major sources was my own handwritten library catalogue, begun in 1783 and continuously amended through 1814. Now at the Massachusetts Historical Society, that catalogue is available online, here.

When my library was sold to Congress, I sent along a manuscript catalogue presenting the books in a particular order, which I described to the Librarian of Congress as "sometimes analytical, sometimes chronological, & sometimes a combination of both." Unfortunately, that catalogue was retained by Mr. George Watterston when his tenure as Librarian ended in 1829, and has not been found.

In the 1980s, librarians James Gilreath (Library of Congress) and Douglas Wilson (Knox College) discovered a manuscript catalogue of the collection - with the books in the order I preferred - created for me by a young gentleman named Nicholas Trist in 1823. This list, published by the Library of Congress in 1989 as Thomas Jefferson’s Library: A Catalog With the Entries in His Own Order is available in digital form, here. The notation for each title from this list can be found in the Comments section.

In their work, Gilreath and Wilson provide a useful Selected Reading List for those interested in learning more about my library.

Also, please see the Library of Congress' interactive exhibit, Thomas Jefferson's Library, and the Thomas Jefferson's Libraries Documented site at Monticello.

During the course of my long life, I also accumulated other libraries which are not included here. My earliest library, which contained c. 250 titles, was housed at Shadwell, my boyhood home. The books were almost entirely destroyed by a fire in 1770. I also kept a library of c. 335 titles at my Poplar Forest house beginning around 1809 (a portion of which was sold at auction in 1873). My final library, created at Monticello after the collection represented here was sold to Congress until the time of my death in 1826, grew to 950 titles. That collection was sold at auction in 1829.

A note on my reviews: the Thingamabrarii have gleaned them from the excerpts printed in the annotated print edition of my catalog. They have been edited for capitalization, but otherwise have been left in original form.

A note on my tags: They are as given in this chart, as designed by me in the manuscript catalogue of my library, 1815. A rough approximation appears here (with links to the tags). Links to the bibliographic chapters are available here.

Hjemmesidehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

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Rigtigt navnThomas Jefferson

StedMonticello

YndlingsforfattereIngen angivet

Kontotypeoffentlig, livstid

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URLer http://www.librarything.com/profile/ThomasJefferson (profil)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ThomasJefferson (bibliotek)

Medlem sidenSep 3, 2007